Throughout my life I was graced with the most supportive, encouraging, loving and inspiring family anyone could ever ask for. Therefore, I am very close with my parents and my sister. My parents always emphasized the importance of education. They always stressed that school always came first, over extracurricular activities or even fun. This hard working life style is forever instilled in my personality and I am so grateful for my family’s encouragement.
Both of my parents’ had to work hard to experience the education system at its best. That definitely impacts their view that education is one of the most important things in life. Ever since I was a baby, education has been the basis of my life. I could read before I was in kindergarten and I specifically remember being named the best reader in my second grade class. Instead of watching television, my parents read to my sister and me. Every summer, my mother ( who is a teacher) would buy workbooks for my sister and I to complete, to improve our writing or math. She never let a summer go by without schoolwork. I absolutely hated this (and for a good reason).
I was always involved in many extracurricular activities. I started being involved in something musically related at a very young age. I did dance since age three, piano and theatre since second grade and singing since fourth grade. While those activities were always important, they never came before my schoolwork. Once I entered middle school and high school, I was super involved in basically every aspect of high school. I did cheerleading, band, chorus, dance, musicals, Italian Club, and many other things. I was so busy, but every free minute in school was spent doing homework so that I could attend all my extracurriculars. I was always really stressed because I had to deal with all AP and Honors classes, plus extracurriculars during my study time, but strangely, I worked best when faced with less time and when I was under pressure.
I always said that I didn’t want to be a teacher because my whole family is practically full of teachers; I wanted to be something different. However, after working with little kids at camp for a few years, I decided that teaching would be my career path. I just loved the way that kids looked up to me and I loved everything about the early years. I decided I wanted to learn to become fluent in Italian because of my involvement with my Italian teacher who was like my second mom. I also basically ran the Italian Club at my school.
I am so grateful for the life of learning I’ve been taught to value. I look up to my parents for all they’ve done for my sister and me. I think it is amazing that they planned their lives in order to give us the best education possible. Thanks completely to them; my college is all paid in the money they’ve been saving since I was born. As much as I thought the learning I was being subjected to was miserable, I appreciate it more than anything. Because of my parents’ and sister’s encouragement, I managed to be number twenty-five in my class and get into the Honors College at URI. My family is the sole reason why I am so committed to everything I do. sm
Both of my parents’ had to work hard to experience the education system at its best. That definitely impacts their view that education is one of the most important things in life. Ever since I was a baby, education has been the basis of my life. I could read before I was in kindergarten and I specifically remember being named the best reader in my second grade class. Instead of watching television, my parents read to my sister and me. Every summer, my mother ( who is a teacher) would buy workbooks for my sister and I to complete, to improve our writing or math. She never let a summer go by without schoolwork. I absolutely hated this (and for a good reason).
I was always involved in many extracurricular activities. I started being involved in something musically related at a very young age. I did dance since age three, piano and theatre since second grade and singing since fourth grade. While those activities were always important, they never came before my schoolwork. Once I entered middle school and high school, I was super involved in basically every aspect of high school. I did cheerleading, band, chorus, dance, musicals, Italian Club, and many other things. I was so busy, but every free minute in school was spent doing homework so that I could attend all my extracurriculars. I was always really stressed because I had to deal with all AP and Honors classes, plus extracurriculars during my study time, but strangely, I worked best when faced with less time and when I was under pressure.
I always said that I didn’t want to be a teacher because my whole family is practically full of teachers; I wanted to be something different. However, after working with little kids at camp for a few years, I decided that teaching would be my career path. I just loved the way that kids looked up to me and I loved everything about the early years. I decided I wanted to learn to become fluent in Italian because of my involvement with my Italian teacher who was like my second mom. I also basically ran the Italian Club at my school.
I am so grateful for the life of learning I’ve been taught to value. I look up to my parents for all they’ve done for my sister and me. I think it is amazing that they planned their lives in order to give us the best education possible. Thanks completely to them; my college is all paid in the money they’ve been saving since I was born. As much as I thought the learning I was being subjected to was miserable, I appreciate it more than anything. Because of my parents’ and sister’s encouragement, I managed to be number twenty-five in my class and get into the Honors College at URI. My family is the sole reason why I am so committed to everything I do.
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